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Show THE RICH COUNT! REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH ' Hawking, Horseback Sport, Popular With Hungarians Hawking is done mostly on horseback, and much the same sort of terrain is required as for following hounds. The plains of Hungary, where the country is just rough enough to be exciting and ' where birds are numerous, is favorable for huntings and that doubtless is one of the reasons that falconry has never died out there, observes a writer in the New1 Yflrk Times. Training the birds, either those born in captivity or captured hawks (these are the haggards), is an important and difficult part of preparation for hunting. The hawks are taught at first to follow a lure a very short distance, and the lure comes to mean food to them. Later on the live prey takes the place of the lure. Hawks are taken out hood-- , ed and leashed on the wrist of the mounted huntsman, and cast off when the game is sighted. Then the trained bird mounts until it is a speck in the sky. Then she stoops that is, launches herself like from high above to strike the prey. The hunter follows the pursuit to be in at the death and recapture the hawk. !'-- Edison Inventions From Signal Device to Rubber Some of the important inventions accredited to Thomas A. Edison included the following : Telegraphic signal device (1863), the repeater (1865), the voting machine (1868), improved stock market ticker (1869), a typewriter (1871), quadruple telegraphic repeater (1872), district signal box (1874), automatic telegraph transmitter (1875), mimeograph (1875), carbon telephone transmitter (1875), phonograph (1877), incandescent lamp (1878), electric dynamo (1880), electric motor (1881), trolley car (1881), electric meter (1881), ore separator (1881), valve gear (1882), electric railway turntable (1882), railway signal system (1885), process for making plate glass (1887), extracting gold from sulphate ores (1888), sleeping .".TTS-- .r i I The Quality of Mercy . . dug to a depth of several inches, and then it is lined all around with silk which the spider spins. The lid is made of layers of soil (often sand) and layers of spider silk. It is firmly made, and is of d or circular shape. of it is fastened to an edge of the hole. Closing the trapdoor, the spider has a snug home for herself and her young. The top of the trapdoor is covered in such a way that it matches the ground above. Sometimes it is covered with moss. The trapdoor can be lifted a little bit, so the spider can peep out and see whether any insects are close by. If one is in reach, the spider runs out, catches it, and drags it in. No outside web is spun by the trapdoor spiders, for no web is needed. Enough game is obtained by laying in wait. One-thir- doll (1889), motion picture camera (1891), composition brick (1893), rock crusher, dryer and mixer (1897), alkaline storage battery (1900), reversible galvah.c battery (1901), improved cement mixer (1902), a photographic film (1903), recording telephone (1905), improved' phonograph (1908), a starting system for automobiles (1912), talking pictures (1913), flashlight (1914), improved transmitter (1918), electro-platin- g (1919), disc The Gulf Stream The Gulf stream is a strong cur- phonograph records (1923), imrent which runs up the coast of proved radio receiver (1926), synNorth America from the Straits of thetic rubber (1931) Florida as far north as Newfoundland. Naturally, it has above the Signposts of the Sea average heat, and raises the temMust Be Kept in Order perature of the water it passes, through. Its influence crosses the The ocean highways need as North Atlantic and reaches our much repair and patching as the land. It has thus a great effect on roads on land. The of the seas round our shores, and so the sea must be kept insignposts orperfect on our climate, says London An- der. Thousands of buoys are placed swers Magazine. Without it, our around our coasts, marking the danwinters would be much more se- ger points and directing the way up vere, as Great Britain is really river mouths and into ports, says a situated as far north as some of writer in London Answers Magazine. the really icy parts of Asia and Scores of lighthouses warn mariners North America. The Gulf stream of rocks and sandbanks, and out to has, at the start of its journey, a sea lightships are stationed where temperature of about 75 degrees, buoys and lighthouses cannot be and travels at an average rate of placed. 72 miles a day. All these seamarks are subjected to the ceaseless battering of wind and wave, and throughout the year Visible Stars repairs have to be carried out when There are not many more than weather permits. 6.000 stars that are visible to ordiNaturally enough, most damage is nary eyes under the best of visibilincurred during the winter, when ity conditions. Half of these stars conditions are at. their worst, and are always below the horizon. That when it is not uncommon for the would leave about 3,000 visible at crews of and lighthouses one time were it not for the fact to be cut lightships off from the land for a that the fainter stars disappear month on end. Because of gales and when close to the horizon, because gigantic seas it is frequently impostheir light cannot penetrate the sible to carry out repairs during n thick layers of atmos- the winter. phere there. The number of stars A large number of buoys are alvisible to the naked eye in the clearways kept ready at an instants noest and darkest skies is between tice at the depots, and if a wreck 2.000 and 2,500. Haze, moonlight or wreck buoys are at once the glare of the street lamps may occurs, cut to mark the site. As a taken reduce this number by half or more. are brought in A field glass brings out more than rule the small buoys for overhaul annually, the large 50,000, while a telescope of two ones every three years. inches aperture raises the number to hundreds of thousands. As the power of the telescope increases Causes of Earthquakes he star count leaps forward. Earthquakes are believed to result from a number of different causes, but the principal one is conMount Ararat to be faulting or the slipping sidered ' Mount Ararat is a d of one great body of rock upon anmountainous area situated where other in the earths crust or outer Armenia and Persia meet, south of layer. The usual points of origin for the Caucasus range. It is note- such are estimated to be worthy for its extensiveness rather from changes 10 to 20 miles below the surthan its height, the highest peak face. Some result from violent exbeing something under 17,000 feet. accompanying volcanic The mountain is of volcanic origin. plosions others from the falling eruptions, Its lower regions are inhabited and in of subterranean caverns, landthe summits have been repeatedly slides and various on the slumpings ascended and thoroughly explored. outer faces of the continental platThe statement that Noahs-ar- k restearthsea. Great the under forms ed on Mount Ararat has no foundamost numerous in voltion in the Hebrew text, which quakes are canic regions and particularly near reads that the ark . . rested on mountainous the edges of contithe mountains of Ararat, says the on the ocean. The Cleveland Plain Dealer. In ancient nents, bordering waves travel most earthquake rapid times Ararat was the name of a dis- 300 miles a minute and they are trict in eastern Armenia, and someof an inch fraction small a times also for all 'Armenia and the usually in width. Waves with an up and mountainous ridge in the southern down motion of half an inch or of part, of that country. an inch to and fro, are destructive. 11 ..JSZ " Spiders Invented Hinges Before the Time of Man In making a home or nest, the trapdoor spider digs into the earth, biting the soil and forcing bits of it upward with her legs. The hole is one-four- th Trapdoor spiders have enemies of their own, declares a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and must be on their guard against them. We are told that if an enemy tries to lift the lid, the spider clings to it on the side opposite to the hinge.. If the enemy is strong enough to lift it anyway, the spider still may be able to escape. Often there is a tunnel from the nest to another trapdoor, and this can be used as a means of getting away. Veneering Used in Egypt Thousands of Years Ago Drawn tor the American tied Cross bp Lawrence Wilbur . mist-lade- twin-peake- Strongest, Bravest of the Gods The Word Starboard Thor was, in Scandivanian mytholThe word starboard appears to ogy, the eldest son of Odin and Frig-g- have come down from the earliest strongest and bravest of the who called that side gods. He launched the thunder, pre- of their Viking ships from which sided over the air and the seasons, the steering oar protruded the and protected man from lightning which became corsteorboard, and evil spirits. His wife .was Sif to starboard or even the rupted was drawn by (love); his chariot stabd of the. tar, Naturally his mace or hammer two enough, according to a writer in the was called Mjolner; his belt was Tribune, the opposite of Chicago Megingjard and whenever he put it the ship, which was brought in on his strength was double. His palwith the or wharf when ace was Thrudvangr and contained contact for fearjetty of breaking the 540 halls. Thursday is Thors day. loading, steor or rudder, became the lading The word means refuge from terror. board, laddebord, or larboard, later -- t changed to port because of the danger .of confusing larboard and starDifference in Sponges when hearing was difficult board Sponges, although one of the lowa storm. The full rigged ship during est forms of animal life, vary great- is a tangle of ropes, evseemingly ly in habitat, color and size. They one of which is called marery are found in both deep and shallow sheet, line, painter water in seas, , rivers and lakes tingale, stay, but a rope. , anything Tunkins Defines a Leader such throughout the world; possess Jud Tunkins says a leader is colors as red, blue,' brown and sometimes a man who gets a whole green, as well as yellow; and vary Imperfect Sympathy a Fault lot of people to agree with him, in weight, says a writer in Colliers Imperfect sympathy is a fault as but oftener a man who learns to Weekly, from a fraction of an ounce great as imperfect knowledge. agree with a whole lot of people. to a hundred pounds. While we do not know when and where the art of veneering wa,s invented, there is no doubt that it had reached a high stage of development in Egypt 3,500 years ago, observes a writer in the Chicago Tribune. It was practiced by the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians, by the Greeks, and particularly by the Romans, who used it not only in furniture but also in door frames and panels. When the ancient European civilization was submerged by the dark .ages, the art of veneering was temporarily lost, only to be revived in the form of inlays during the Renaissance. True veneering did not become common in Europe until after the middle of the Seventeenth century, when a new type of saw was invented which would divide a plank into thin sheets. The art reached the point of technical perfection during the reign of Louis XIV, and ever since that time it has been practiced by most of the great cabinet makers of all countries, except, of course, in the case of the carvers, of whom Chippendale is the outstanding exemplar. Most of the magnificent furniture of the Eighteenth century France, that of the Adam, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton styles in England, and the really distinguished furniture of the late Colonial and Federal periods in America, made a free use of veneers. Ancient Ways of Greeting How do you greet a friend when you meet him or her in the street? If you shake hands or take off your hat you arent doing anything new. Youre just following old customs, says a writer in London Answers Magazine. In days of old, the joining of hands was equivalent to a peace treaty it meant that the hands were free of weapons. And even the boldest of knights would take off his helmet among friends to show that he wasnt afraid of a blow on the head. Kissing, too, has its origin in earliest times. The old Greeks and Romans used to kiss their friends and acquaintances on every occasion. One old scholar relates that is was polite, when calling on anyone, to kiss first the host, then his wife, followed by all his children, and finally the dog and cat. a, Anglo-Saxon- s, , he-goa- ts, . How Greenland Got Its Name to a Scandinavian According saga, Eric the Red named it Greenland as an inducement to colonists from Iceland to settle there. This was in 985 A. D. Greatest Soldier of Fortune Greatest of all soldiers of fortune was William H. Walker, the gray eyed man of destiny. After graduating from college at fourteen. Walker was first a doctor, then a newspaper man. Suddenly, in 1853, he sailed with a handful of men from California, set up a republic in Lower California. That failed. But two years later, he led 56 men to Nicaragua, joined a revolutionary faction and became undisputed ruler of the country. He held out for a year against a union of Central American countries and unfriendly American capitalists who backed his enemies, then returned to the United States. Several other expeditions failed, and, on the last. Walker was captured by Hondurans and executed. 1 Subscribe f o u theJReaper |